"I never was opposed to gay leaders personally but it's interesting how they're forcing the BSA to accept certain things but insisting upon them giving up other things, like knives and guns... which are the kinds of things the program was [more]

"List for me the places where annual property taxes are in excess of 3% of FMV. I have owned houses in two HIGH property tax areas (Chicagoland area in Illinois and DFW in Texas) and property taxes have not exceeded 2.5% of FMV. As also noted, [more]

"I take all our "yard waste" and dump it over the back fence into our woods. I cleaned out one of our small freezers this afternoon and emptied out a bunch of old freezer burned nasty food on a big flat rock out back and by morning [more]

We own a small ranch and our property taxes are in the $7500 annually range. One of the reasons is that unlike many states in which counties operate schools (hence can consolidate administration, overhead, etc. expenses) every town/township in NJ [more]